Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-21 Thread Marco Fleckinger
Gregor Hagedorn g.m.haged...@gmail.com schrieb: So, please suggest terms to use for at least these two things: 1) value certainty (ideally, not using digits, but something that is independent of unit and rendering) Here we want to talk about something that the true value is with a certain

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-21 Thread Daniel Kinzler
On 20.12.2012 20:52, Gregor Hagedorn wrote: I believe there are a lot of dangerous assumptions on http://simia.net/valueparser/ First: there is no indication in a number that it is _not_ endlessly precise. Apostles = 12 has no uncertainty, representing it as 12 ± 1 is wrong, but also 12

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-21 Thread Daniel Kinzler
On 20.12.2012 20:31, Friedrich Röhrs wrote: Hi, tried to enter the height of the eiffel tower. 324 meters. It suggested 324m +-100m. That's strange. When I enter 324m, it correctly suggests 324m+/-1 for me. -- daniel -- Daniel Kinzler, Softwarearchitekt Wikimedia Deutschland -

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-21 Thread Daniel Kinzler
On 20.12.2012 20:59, Avenue wrote: Thanks, the prototype helps make some this more concrete. I am increasingly wondering if uncertainty will be overloaded here. People seem to want to use it for various types of measurement uncertainty (e.g. the standard error), ranges with no defined

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-21 Thread Friedrich Röhrs
Hi, Does for me too now. Maybe i played around with the autouncertainty checkbox before trying 324 (probably had some 4 digit value before). Although the Problem remains, the height of the Eifeltower is not 324 +-1 meter. It is given as 324meters without any further information. So it should

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #37

2012-12-21 Thread dr . cueppers . gmbh
Hallo Lydia, bitte mich vom Wikidata-Verteiler löschen: Ich war einige Zeit im Krankenhaus und habe die rd. 300 e-mails gelöscht, weil ich nicht mehr in der Lage bin, das alles nachzuvollziehen - es wird mir im Moment einfach alles zu viel. Gruß aus Paderborn - auch an Denny -

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-21 Thread Gregor Hagedorn
Hm the second one is only relevant for output. I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding: The original one is not for output but is the primary value for interpretation, for understanding whether a value in Wikidata is correct of fake, or a software conversion error, or what. If I want to

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-21 Thread Gregor Hagedorn
I don't like significant digits because it depends on the writing system (base 10). I'd much rather express this as absolute values. Yes, I would like too. What I argue is that the problem is that you simply in 99.9 % (not a researched of number of course) of cases simply don't know more

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-21 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi all, wow! Thanks for all the input. I read it all through, and am trying to digest it currently into a new draft of the data model for the discussed data values. I will try to adress some questions here. Please be kind if I refer the wrong person at one place or the other. Whenever I refer to

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-21 Thread jmcclure
(if i knew the private email for Denny, I'd send this there) Martynas, there is no mention here of XSD etc. because it is not relevant on this level of discussion. For exporting the data we will obviously use XSD datatypes. This is so obvious that I didn't think it needed to be explicitly

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-21 Thread jmcclure
The xsd:minInclusive, xsd:maxInclusive, xsd:minExclusive and xsd:maxExclusive facets are absolute expressions not relative +/- expressions, in order to accommodate fast queries. These four facets permit specification of ranges with an unspecified median and ranges with a specified mode,

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-21 Thread Gregor Hagedorn
On 21 December 2012 19:36, jmccl...@hypergrove.com wrote: The xsd:minInclusive, xsd:maxInclusive, xsd:minExclusive and xsd:maxExclusive facets are absolute expressions not relative +/- expressions, in order to accommodate fast queries. These four facets permit specification of ranges with an

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-21 Thread jmcclure
I detect a need to characterize the range expression - most important of which is whether the range is complete, or whether it excludes (equal) tails on each end. XSD presumes a complete range is being specified, not a subset, is the issue you're raising? Could an additional facet for

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-21 Thread Friedrich Röhrs
Hi, On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: Friedrich, the term query answering simply means the ability to answer queries against the database in Phase 3, e.g. the list of cities located in Ghana with a population over 25,000 ordered by